The biggest advantage to having the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon is that it will be rocking 4G/LTE, offering some very fast and almost unnecessary data speeds for a mobile phone. Because the device supports LTE you can expect the Galaxy Nexus to be slightly thicker and to have a bigger battery. Whether or not the bigger battery will really help much, it’s certainly hard to complain about. Still, heavy usage of the GSM variant will result in some dramatic battery loss if you have the screen up to full brightness and the thought of putting LTE into this handset is a bit scary.

The guys over at Droid-Life have gotten word that the Galaxy Nexus will launch on December 9th and given that we’re already seeing the handset in Verizon stores, it’s a believable claim. If this date turns out to be true, you’ll be able to walk into a Big Red store this Friday to grab your very own Samsung Galaxy Nexus.